And now for something completely different…
This week has been good, and today has been good, but I hit the burn-out point at about 6:04 tonight.
I’ve been sick for a week now and I’m tired because I stayed up too late last night supporting charitable causes saving the environment playing on the Interweb, and then my darling child got me up during the night and then woke for good at 6 a.m. So it’s Friday night and I sort of have my crankypants on (fleecy pajama ones because I don’t care what the calendar says, it’s not summer!). But I’m in luck – Rach and Sara have a link-up where I can rant share what I’ve learned this week. Which happens to all be stuff I already know but maybe if I write it down I’ll actually learn the lessons instead of continually repeating them.
- When I’m sick I need to either sleep or get up and have a shower. Spending half the day in my pajamas actually doesn’t make me feel better.
- Staying up late and thinking it’s fine because I don’t have to work and can nap the next day is dumb. Because I don’t nap. So I just end up tired.
- I tend to run out of patience a little faster – okay, pretty much immediately – when I’m tired.
- I need to find some sort of toilet paper tracking system so we don’t keep having Toilet Paper Emergencies, which result in raiding the house for Kleenex boxes and late-night trips to the store.
- I should not take my dog for a walk wearing plastic flip-flops. I’ve done this before and got blisters. I did it again today and have blisters and really sore feet (see above reference to crankypants).
- Even when I don’t feel like it, I should pay my child sufficient attention because if I don’t it inevitably results in him throwing things around the room and then tackling me bodily and that, surprisingly, doesn’t make me any more cheerful.
And with that, at 7:49 on a Friday evening, I bid you good night. I’ll probably be asleep before 9, which is a good thing because I have the small boy on my own for most of the day tomorrow for the first time in a really long time so, you know, being tired would be a bad thing.
Wish me luck.
